Gavrilo Prinzip killed the Archduke and his wife, the Duchess Sophia, with two shots from a pistol. This led to WWI.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife were shot in Bosnia.
As the key event that prompted the outbreak of World War I, the 'assassination in Sarajevo' took place on June 28, 1914, and was followed days and weeks later by various declarations of war that soon led to the world-wide conflict. Killed in the attack was the Austro-Hungarian Empire's Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were shot and killed by Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914. He was a member of the Serbian separatist organization known as the Black Hand.
well there was a group called the black hand and they were ethnic Serb's and they wanted freedom freedom from Bosnia which archduke Ferdinand ruled they hated him so much they wanted him dead.thegroup black hand sent four men into different places in a serbian city called sarajevo where the archduke was.the first man who tried to kill him got caught the second man went right up to archduke ferdinand and his wife and shot them both.
Her name was Sophia, and she was pregnant when she and her husband were killed.
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated on June 28, 1914. He and his wife were killed by Gavrilo Princip who was part of a group of six assassins.
Gavrilo Prinzip killed the Archduke and his wife, the Duchess Sophia, with two shots from a pistol. This led to WWI.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914.
Archduke Ferdinand was assassinate in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovinia 28 June 1914. He and his wife Sophia were killed by Gavrilo Princip
Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria with his wife Sophie, duchess of Hohenburg were killed in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife were shot in Bosnia.
The Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 by a Serbian nationalist (who had a revolver).
Nearly all of Europe was unhappy with their neighbors, but the Serbian attackers who killed Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sofia set the war in motion.
Sophie Ferdinand
His wife, who also died, and his driver, who lived.
As the key event that prompted the outbreak of World War I, the 'assassination in Sarajevo' took place on June 28, 1914, and was followed days and weeks later by various declarations of war that soon led to the world-wide conflict. Killed in the attack was the Austro-Hungarian Empire's Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.